We estimate the impact of exchange rate fluctuations and other external factors on hours worked and employment in Canada’s manufacturing industries. The analysis is based on a dynamic model of labour demand and the econometric strategy employs a dynamic OLS approach for cointegrating...

The internal migration flows from the Italian Mezzogiorno to Central and Northern Italy have recently begun to increase once more. The idea suggested in this article is that the intensification of internal migration in Italy can be associated with a twofold dynamics residing in the significant...

Why did employment growth - high in the last decade - take place at the expense of young workers mainly, but not only. in the countries of Southern Europe? Youth unemployment is now exceeding 30%, after decades hovering around 20% and over, despite a variety of factors, common to most EU...

In this paper, we assess the extent of offshoring in the Italian manufacturing industries, and we study how this phenomenon is affecting the skill composition of employment. Measuring offshoring using the import-use matrices of input-output tables, firstly we estimate the impact of offshoring on...

L’objectif de cet article est de déterminer les effets de la diffusion des innovations technologiques sur la demande de la main d’oeuvre par qualification des industries pour le cas d’un pays en développement (en l’occurrence la Tunisie) en utilisant des données de panel sur la...

This paper investigates determinants of changes of the labor share in developed countries with a focus on Western Europe. Using a country-industry panel that covers the private sector, the paper focuses on long and short-run changes within industries. The results show a large and time-persistent...

During the nineties, some developing countries undertook reforms in the labor market and opened their economies to the world, measures that are not translated, as expected, in substantial improvements in employment levels and incomes in these economies. Argentina, however, adopted in recent...

First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at...

This paper examines the demand shift toward workers who are university graduates in terms of skill-biased technological change (SBTC) and globalization, both of which utilize relatively more workers with specific skills. According to the results of our empirical study, which used the major...

This paper investigates the effects of increased import competition on Japanese manufacturing employment at the four-digit industry level from the mid 1990s to the early 2000s. The estimation results of a labor demand equation indicate that decreases in import prices are closely related to the...